Do I Accept the Gray Hair or Do I Get a Mullet?
Do I Accept the Gray Hair or Do I Get a Mullet?
It’s getting noticeable. Friends and family are starting to point it out. They make casual remarks such as “Wow, there’s more gray now than the last time I saw you” or, “You had such pretty red hair”.
Had? I went to the bathroom mirror and pointedly examined my head of hair from all angles. They were right…the offending filaments were taking over. And it wasn’t a dull gray neither. It was more like a shimmery metallic silver that catches the light as if to announce boldly “Hello aging person – I AM HERE!” like a cabaret performer vying to be the center of attention. How did I not notice?
The advancing silver outsmarted me, plain and simple. It didn’t come in all at once so I would wake up one morning, panic, and go get L'Oreal products to conceal it. It marched in stealth-like, took up positions in quadrants and radioed back to headquarters that it had firmly established a base. And now that I’ve acknowledged its occupation of my head, it’s the only color I can see.
Oh how I will miss my red hair. In my youth, I pretended to be Anne of Green Gables, Pippi Longstocking or the little red-haired girl that Charlie Brown crushed on. When my daughter was little, she was convinced that I was the mermaid Ariel as we pretended to live under the sea. I hate to imagine what character I will play with my future grandchildren…Gray Wolf? Call of the Wild? A portrayal of Richard Gere or Jay Leno, perhaps?
And then I noticed the pattern. If I just cut off all of the gray on the sides of my head, I would end up with a mullet! Hmmm, let’s think about this…I could return to my glory days for the price of looking like Billy Ray Cyrus in the 80s. That’s a tough decision.
Billy's Mullet
But for the moment, I have decided not to act irrationally. In fact, I have decided not to decide and will instead officially enter the denial period of my aging process. I will overcompensate and buy new clothes, maybe a new car. I will rock climb and start texting in code to my friends. I’ll say things like “true dat” and “sup”. Maybe I’ll watch The Hills or get a mad crush on singer Chris Brown.
That way, I won’t have time to notice the hostile takeover of life upon my body.
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Mullet. Definitely.
Mullet. Definitely. :)))
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That
is heartbreaking when you lose the beautiful color of your hair. But silver is a color too and you can wear it just as proudly. Not as a sign of age but of wisdom.
Mullets
When I first saw the headline, I was thinking "Mullet? No way." But I was assuming the article was written by a guy.
A guy should only wear a mullet if he is a metal rocker, a hockey player, or (related) from a place like Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
It's different on a woman. I've seen mullet-life hair (but is that type of hairstyle on a woman even called a mullet?). There are other hairstyles for women that might get rid of the gray without making you look like the sister of Def Leppard's drummer's wife's cousin.
Or, as you say, there's the other option: hair coloring. No shame in that, even guys I know are doing it.
I'm going gray myself, but as a guy, I'm so overjoyed to have a full head of hair, of any color, at my advanced age, that I'm not worried about the gray. Yet.
Grey is Great
Although I know the social pressures abound but I've always thought that the Salt and Pepper look in women was strangely attractive. I don't know if it is the selfconfidence that says "yeah, I'm an older woman and I am beautiful the way I am" or someother sicko thing. Hmmm..something more for the head shrinker.
Better it turns grey than turns loose....
As my father in law used to say with his head of beautiful grey hair to his son who was bald. Great writing.....
I feel your pain. +1
I started graying when I was 19 years old and just starting my career in the Navy. Fortunately, I liked to keep my hair short (kinda had to!), so it wasn't so much of an issue until I got out in 1996 at age 29 and wore my hair a smidge longer. Year by year, the Army of Gray advanced across my head and even the goatee I grew when I got out.
Now, I've taken to using Just for Men every 6 weeks or so. On those occasions where the color washes out, I see that my sideburns have that Hugh Hefner quality and my goatee is largely gray. When I look in the mirror, my reflection would show someone who is older than I feel. Hence, the color.
Perhaps once I'm on the other side of 45 (just 40 now), I'll forgo the coloring. Or not.
The only advice I could possibly give is do what's best for you and not worry about what everyone else thinks about the grays.
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Beginning to notice a little gray myself
But I've been lucky so far. My mother is 87 and she still has quite a bit of of her original hair color mixed in with the gray -- pretty remarkable I would say. I don't know if I'll be so lucky.
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Thanks for the insights
to everyone who posted comments! I appreciate your stories about gray hair issues and/or advice. I'm leaning towards accepting the silver (turn gray or turn loose! ha ha) without too much attitude.
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What's a mullet? *lol*
Well I really don't know what it is but will look it up.
I say stay "natural"! I have been getting grey hair since I was 16, I get alot of people asking me, where did you get your hair frosted? It looks so nice! haha
Mia I think you should just go with the flow :)
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being a redhead myself, i'd
being a redhead myself, i'd say go grey. i don't know which is worse, red hair or a mullet.
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Go With the Flow
I had gray/white hair since the day I was born, and as a platinum blond that slowly turned into brown hair, no one noticed until I reached middle-aged. I tried dying/bleaching my hair, and accomplished the blond look until I reached college. But in college I ended up allergic to hair dye. I tell you hives are not attractive. My hair looks frosted, and not unattractive. My advice is to tell people you are prematurely gray, or you decided to go with the frosted look, and go with the flow.